Re: femon signal strength

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>]

I didn't receive Devin's mail, so I'm replying to this one instead, see
below:

On 06.11.2011 20:59, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 10:01:49 -0500
> Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday, November 6, 2011, Steffen Barszus
>> <steffenbpunkt@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Any uniform
>>> scale is better, then whats there at the moment.

[...]

>> (and I've said on numerous occasions when discussing this
>> issue that any standard that is uniform is better than no standard at
>> all).  "Perfect is the enemy of good"

Quoting myself from three years ago, I propose to add an interface to
read SNR in units of db/100:

On 17.10.2008 11:55, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> How about adding a new command instead (and a similar one for S2API)? 
> 
> /* Read SNR in units of dB/100 */
> #define FE_READ_SNR_DB _IOR('o', 74, __u16)
> 
> Then it's no problem to slowly migrate the drivers to this interface. The
> old interface can still stay for some time without changes. Applications
> can try this ioctl, and if it returns an error, then it is not implemented
> for the used device.

S2API currently implements none of the signal quality measurement
commands that v3 knows about. Nevertheless, it should be easy to add a
property:

/* SNR in units of dB/100 */
#define DTV_SNR		44

If a driver does not implement this property, the core should return an
error (i.e. set dtv_property.result to a non-zero value, e.g. -EOPNOTSUPP).

Regards,
Andreas